Cancer symptoms: Four signs in your poo that could indicate the deadly disease

CANCER symptoms can often be mistaken for less serious health conditions and can go untreated. But not recognising the signs can have potentially fatal consequences. So what should you look out for? Four signs may become evident in your poo.

Cancer has more than 200 different types, but the four most common types in the UK are breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer and bowel cancer. The disease causes cells in the body to grow and reproduce uncontrollably, destroying healthy tissue and organs. There is currently no cure for cancer, but if you can recognise the signs and symptoms your chances of survival can be significantly reduced.

Looser stools

Bowel Cancer Uk advises: “Tell your GP if you have noticed any persistent and unexplained changes in your bowel habit, especially if you also have bleeding from your back passage.

“You may have looser poo and you may need to poo more often than normal. Or you may feel as though you’re not going to the toilet often enough or you might not feel as though you’re not fully emptying your bowels.”

Diarrhoea

Many people with pancreatic cancer will also notice changes in their bowel habits. This can include constipation, loose stools or even diarrhoea.

But most the time diarrhoea is caused by a virus and clears up within a few days.